Thursday, June 5, 2008

Namasté

I learned today that I am Hindu and you are, too. Out of all the religions, I've always been particularly interested in Hinduism and Buddhism.

I don't want to die without ever seeing Egypt or without living at least a brief time in New York City, and again in Europe.

"'Fatima is a woman of the desert,' said the alchemist. 'She knows that men have to go away in order to return. And she already has her treasure: it's you. Now she expects that you will find what it is you're looking for [. . .] You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love . . . the love that speaks the Language of the World [. . .] Don't think about what you've left behind,' the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. 'Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever [. . .] If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.'"
~Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

XOXO,
Ashley

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